its lead and it is a ear of corn. What was it used for?

[waseeker]

it's lead and it is a ear of corn. What was it used for?

I found this poured relic at the site of an old house last week. It is lead and looks to have been poured using one of those corn bread molds.

It is 5 1/2 inches long and appear to have been painted yellow although the paint is now very faded.

Anyone have any ideas what this might have been used for?

door stopper?

Paper weight?

 

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[junkdigger]

Re: it's lead and it is a ear of corn. What was it used for?

Could it be a weight for a "corny" pendulum clock?

 

[Gypsy Heart]

Re: it's lead and it is a ear of corn. What was it used for?

Is there a slit in it? Is it hollow?

 

[waseeker]

Re: it's lead and it is a ear of corn. What was it used for?

Is there a slit in it? Is it hollow?

No slit and it's not hollow. it is a solid chunk of lead.

 

[MEinWV]

Re: it's lead and it is a ear of corn. What was it used for?

Is it flat on one side?

 

[Spitfire Reddie]

Re: it's lead and it is a ear of corn. What was it used for?

I would say its someones whimsy.........made as a paperweight probably.Casting was quite popular long ago and maybe someone had some left over lead !

 

[romeo-1]

Re: it's lead and it is a ear of corn. What was it used for?

doorstop...

 

[dg39]

Re: it's lead and it is a ear of corn. What was it used for?

Probably some feed company used it as a promotional paperweight. I agre with S/R on that.
DG

 

[teverly]

Re: it's lead and it is a ear of corn. What was it used for?

I have found 2 of these and in the same area a stock bar of lead.I assumed they were door stops.....

 

[jeremy1350]

Re: it's lead and it is a ear of corn. What was it used for?

thats crazy. my dad used to own about 10 of the exactley the same thing. So I asked him where he got them and this is what he told me. He said about 30 years ago that those corn lead wheights were sold with duck dummies used for duck hunting. they were used to tie onto the floating duck to keep him still in the water. pretty interesting that you found one. him nor I havent seen one in a very long time.

 

[teverly]

Re: it's lead and it is a ear of corn. What was it used for?

Well i never thought of that...
Thanks for the info!!!

 

[waseeker]

Re: it's lead and it is a ear of corn. What was it used for?

thats crazy. my dad used to own about 10 of the exactley the same thing. So I asked him where he got them and this is what he told me. He said about 30 years ago that those corn lead wheights were sold with duck dummies used for duck hunting. they were used to tie onto the floating duck to keep him still in the water. pretty interesting that you found one. him nor I havent seen one in a very long time.

I like that explanation.

 

[Ammietuar]

Re: it's lead and it is a ear of corn. What was it used for?

LOL.. when i was a kid dad and i used to melt down tire weights, fishing sinkers, an bullets we had found. a few times we didnt have anything to put the "good lead" into so dad poured it into some corn bread molds that he got in a box of junk form an auction...we had all kinds of funny shaped lead ingots.. thats the first thing i thought of when i saw the pic... ofcourse we only made the halves and not the whole thing....

 

[Charlie P. (NY)]

Re: it's lead and it is a ear of corn. What was it used for?

The decoy anchor concept has a secondary use. They could be set out as "bait" on the ground, too. It's illegal to use real corn as bait in NY when hunting waterfoul . . . but as far as I know corn shaped lead weights painted yellow are legal.

Adds a little versitility to your hunting gear to have multi-use equipment.

 

[Bavaria Mike]

Re: it's lead and it is a ear of corn. What was it used for?

Cuckoo clock weight maybe? HH, Mike

 

[Tricia]

Re: it's lead and it is a ear of corn. What was it used for?

Decorative piece for someone who likes kitchy stuff?

 

[GrantWA]

Re: it's lead and it is a ear of corn. What was it used for?

Hmm, my first thought was it was used when you ran out of pap... nahhhh...

 

[waseeker]

Re: it's lead and it is a ear of corn. What was it used for?

Hmm, my first thought was it was used when you ran out of pap... nahhhh...

I don't think it would be very absorbent